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(1933-2010) Poet. Peter Orlovsky was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Williston, Vermont.

Full Name

Peter Orlovsky

Locations

Otsego

Author's Timeline

Unknown

RESIDENCE

Peter Orlovsky lived, as a child, in Northport, New York.

1933

BIRTH

Peter Orlovsky was born in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York, in 1933.

1940

RESIDENCE

In the 1940s Peter Orlovsky moved with his mother and siblings to Queens, New York.

1968

RESIDENCE

In the late 1960s and 1970s Peter Orlovsky spent much time at the farm of Allen Ginsberg in Cherry Valley, New York.

1971

LITWORK

Dear Allen, Ship will land Jan 23, 58


Poetry.

1972

LITWORK

Lepers Cry


Poetry.

1978

LITWORK

Clean Asshole Poems & Smiling Vegetable Songs


Poetry. Reprinted in 1992.

1980

LITWORK

Straight Hearts' Delight: Love Poems And Selected Letters
Gay Sunshine Press
0917342658; ISBN-13: 978-0917342653
Poetry; with Allen Ginsberg.

1980

LITWORK

Dick Tracy's Gelber Hut (German Translation)


Poetry.

2010

DEATH

Peter Orlovsky died at the Vermont Respite House in Williston, Vermont, in 2010.

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